Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Adrienne. Taken by and large, Adrienne offers about as pleasant solace for that tired feeling as any more or less fluffy entertainment that has been staged for some time...
Burns Mantle: "With the little woman away and the kids at the shore, he (the golf-wearied merchant) will find Adrienne stimulating and pleasant to take...
DUBLIN DAYS?L. A. G. Strong? Boni and Liveright ($1.25). A small and pleasant posy of Irish herbs and flowers?poems lacking the conventional oh-so-damn-Gaelic concern with the Sidhe, the Bear without Bristles. Uncle White Seagull and the rest of the melancholy paraphernalia of minor Irish bards. It is evident that the author has read James Stephens, but he has his own individual way of speaking, clear, fresh and cool as the sound of a country brook. Poems for even a reviewer to keep and reread...
...usual reviewer's adjectives beginning in "s." It is smart and suave and sophisticated and sparkling?as amusing an English comedy as Manhattan has seen in some time. The plot turns about one of those kisses that are administered just to pass the time away?this time by a pleasant young gentleman, who thinks his wife is abroad, to a pretty girl, slightly under the influence of her own voice singing a love song. The wife discovers the kissers?and complications begin. Of course all are finally reconciled after many humorous misadventures that offer Cyril Maude any number of delightful...
Taylor Holmes deserves mention for his pleasant portrayal of the guardian. So do James Dyrentforth and Theodore Westman, Jr., who played the parts of two collegians ostensibly from Yale in a way to delight the hearts of all honest Harvard...